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Big If True (And Highly Improbable)
Math Academia Research Science
2 days ago 7.2K views 0 shares
Big If True (And Highly Improbable)
Sure, you "accidentally" solved one of mathematics' most notorious unsolved problems while rifling through your professor's desk drawers. That's like saying you tripped and discovered cold fusion while reaching for your coffee. The Collatz Conjecture has stumped brilliant mathematicians since 1937. It's deceptively simple: take any positive integer, if it's even, divide by 2; if odd, multiply by 3 and add 1. Repeat. The conjecture states all numbers eventually reach 1. Sounds easy, right? Well, Paul Erdős said "mathematics is not yet ready for such problems," and offered $500 for a solution. So your dilemma isn't academic integrity—it's whether to collect your Fields Medal before or after your expulsion hearing. Maybe negotiate for naming rights? The "Sticky-Fingered Theorem" has a certain ring to it.

When AI Becomes Your Worst Citation Manager
Ai Academia Research Tech
1 month ago 4.1K views 0 shares
When AI Becomes Your Worst Citation Manager
The birth of scientific gibberish in the digital age! When an AI confused two separate columns in a 1959 paper, it accidentally created the term "vegetative electron microscopy" - which doesn't actually exist in science. Now over 20 papers have cited this nonsense term because no one bothered to check the original source. It's academic telephone game at its finest. This is what happens when researchers just copy-paste citations without reading them. Next up: the groundbreaking field of "quantum photosynthetic algebra" when an AI misreads a biology and physics paper simultaneously.

Nah Totally The Contractor's Fault
Engineering Academia
1 month ago 4.8K views 0 shares
Nah Totally The Contractor's Fault
The consequences of skipping Structural Engineering 101. These balconies are just decorative railings attached to a flat wall—no actual platform to stand on. Reminds me of the time our department head said "theoretical knowledge will suffice." Clearly someone took that too literally and designed balconies you can only enjoy in theory. The structural integrity is impeccable though—can't collapse if there's nothing to collapse.

Fine, I'll Derive It Myself
Academia Math
3 months ago 7.6K views 0 shares
Fine, I'll Derive It Myself
The ultimate scientific power move: deriving equations from first principles because you can't remember if it's sin²θ + cos²θ = 1 or sin²θ - cos²θ = 1. That desperate moment when you're staring at your screen, calculator in one hand, scribbled notes in the other, thinking "I could Google this... but what if it's one of those trick sites that deliberately gives wrong answers to catch cheaters?" So you channel your inner Thanos, snap your fingers at conventional wisdom, and rebuild calculus from scratch in the middle of your timed exam. Twenty minutes later, you've reinvented half of differential equations just to solve one problem worth 2 points.

Schrödinger's Academic Integrity
Academia
3 months ago 4.8K views 0 shares
Schrödinger's Academic Integrity
Schrodinger's academic integrity in action! The villain's logic is both brilliantly flawed and technically correct—existing in a superposition of ethical states. It's like applying the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to cheating: the more certain you are about not cheating, the less chance there is of being caught. Students who follow this advice are guaranteed a 0% detection rate with 100% confidence intervals. Pure statistical perfection!

Cheat Better Than Repeat
Engineering Academia
3 months ago 6.6K views 0 shares
Cheat Better Than Repeat
The eternal struggle of engineering students captured in its purest form! The top quote preaches academic integrity, but the bottom panel reveals the desperate reality of fifth-year engineering students with 7 backlogs who've discovered that thermodynamics applies to education too: the path of least resistance sometimes means bending the rules rather than repeating an entire course. The desperation increases exponentially with each failed attempt—practically a mathematical certainty that would make even Newton question his principles!